Che-re-wetts

I'm back in my hometown for Aidiladha, and after that for a week long semi-backpacking trip with my siblings. We have got most of the important things sorted out. However, I might have scrimped on our meal budget when I did the costing for the trip (yes, I have a spreadsheet for every trip that I go to…but never print and bring it to the actual trip)….so, now we have to survive on USD8/day….for each person…my friend said it's do-able at the risk of getting stomach discomfort…aishh, pandai-pandaila nanti….kalau tak, makan belalang jela.

Last nite, kitorang semua tido lambat…I brought Mr Wii back home and everyone had a great time playing with it. Then, berborak-borak sambil tengok my sis packing….sempat jugak dia tunjuk baju-baju that she prepared for majlis khatam quran, for makan nasi temuan…yada yada. Dan sempat jugak ntah macam mana ntah, my mum told me I'm being cerewet when it comes to guys. I just told her that it is my right to be cerewet and I will eventually find my guy. I know she meant well and just want my happiness, but happiness can be found in more ways than one. So far, memang ingin dicintai tapi belum sedang ingin bercinta. Ada orang nak tapi myself tak nak pun tak jalan jugak kan? Vice versa. Doa-doa jelah ek supaya hati ini terbuka and for the right guy to come along. Hehehehehe…

On another note, nothing special about raya haji in Kuching, apart from the takbir and prayers at the mosque, and the ibadah kurban of course. As it is in most part of Sarawak. Kalau di Miri, gengOn another note, nothing special about raya haji in Kuching, apart from the takbir and prayers at the mosque, and the ibadah kurban of course. As it is in most part of Sarawak. Kalau di Miri, geng-geng perantau akan buat open house….so memang makan until pecah perut. Anyway, I'm happy to be home and meet my family. Maybe we'll go and catch "New Moon" at MBO. It's THE place to go for movies in Kuching now. I'm not comparing it to the poor cinema yang ntahapehapentah dan ada tikus di you-know-where….but it's really in top quartile compared to the big cinemas that you have in big cities. Hopefully they'll maintain it.

That's all I have for now…Selamat Hari Raya Aidiladha kawan-kawan.

Lia suhn hao-y. Juab kh'nia th'nagy krao-y.

this list is for my own reference/use

Alhamdulillah and congratulations to my good friends Mila & Idin...on the newest addition to the family, a baby girl named Aisya borned on 23rd Nov, 5.30 pm... dah sepasang dah anak diorang ni, hoepfully Hamdani will grow up as the sweet protective brother to baby Aisya. Kalau sempat nanti Aunty Akak pegi melawat korang ok....

a lot of my friends are expecting to be parents tak lama lagi...I think I have to start writing a list, so that it's easier to keep track of them....hmmm....this is what I can recall from my mind...if I missed any names, let me know.

really soon:

- Amir & Baiy
- Din & Shila
- Sue & Zaini
- Ejan & Rosli

2010:

- Peon & Zeff
- Yayee & Bojed
- Zue & Nashar
- Dyg Afiza & hubby
- Irda & hubby

eh...bila dah tulis list macam sikit la pulak....hmmm....

kamek, kitak dan sidaknya

doh beladoh lanang
lanang juak di kaki dulang
molai mabok bukan setegal pinang
mabok beraie si anak urang
alopp......


siapa diberaie kamek tok?
kamek pun sik tauk...
suk kedirik jak kali

sekpala
ilek-ilek isap gam kata mek orang time matrik dolok
nang ada pun sidak ngisap gam time matrik

oh bakal gerekku
walau di mana kitak berada...
datangla carik kamek di Miri tok...
yarabi
kenja alu
apa dikerepak oleh perempuan tok kat blognya

lalekla...blog kamek sukatila kamek nak tulis apa

*peace*

alkisah streamyx

sebagai menyahut seruan kerajaan untuk melahirkan masyarakat yang celik IT, di samping sebagai langkah untuk mengurangkan masa yang digunakan untuk melayari laman web semasa di pejabat dan justeru meningkatkan produktiviti, saya telah mebuat keputusan untuk membuka akau streamyx bagi kediaman saya.

sekarang, seluruh dunia dan ilmu pengetahuan berada di hujung jari saya....tapi, saya tak ada idea apa lagi nak buat selain dari main facebook, check email dan baca berita gosip...saya tiada kesabaran dan minat untuk upload muzik atau filem....youtube pun saya jarang bukak.... sampai di rumah idea pun tiada...dan ada banyak benda lain yg boleh saya lakukan di rumah seperti kemas rumah, basuh baju, tengok TV atau main Nintendo Wii yang sangat baik untuk kesihatan...sekarang, kena bahagikan masa untuk bertapa di depan komputer pulak...daym internet is addictive.

jadi, apa faedahnya steamyx ini kepada saya? whateverla....

If I’m friendly and chatty with you, it really means we’re just friends

If I LIKE a person:

- I will keep it quiet.

- I will tell my close friends instead, coz I need to share/vent it.

- It can be a secret as long as I can keep it…months, years, depends.

- I will only hope for chance meeting, but will not make actual attempt to meet him, in fact, I might run away coz I want to avoid blushing in front of him (my face easily gets red).

- If I found something that I really like, I will let my friends who I think have the same interest know about it and share the excitement…. while wondering whether the person that I like fancy the same thing too…

- With friends, I feel happy when we hang out and look forward for the next get-together session….with the person that I like, I’m happy just to know that he’s happy…

- I’m polite (so I thought la) and I don’t speak like a gangster in front of the person I like.

- If I actually tell that person I like him, it will mean that I like him so much that it burdens me to keep the feeling inside. Usually this will mean that I don’t care whatever will happen as long as I get it out of my head and be done with it.

- The longest I’ve hold a crush on somebody is 8 years during high school all the way until graduation….by the time that person found out that he likes me, I don’t feel the same way anymore. That’s when I told him about the crush I had. My bad.

No propa-propa. Me no like it.

Jangan cemarkan...

This morning, I woke up with this song in my head. A song that took me back to the year 1993.

Oh sungguh tenang dan damai sungaiku,

Alam indah menawan sekali,

Dan kesucianmu sumber hidupku,

Warisan alam yang tiada tandingannya

Mengalir damai dan tenang,

Dari kampung hingga ke seberang,

Dari hulu jauh ke muara,

Tumpuan kehidupan bangsaku

Jangan cemarkan Sungai Sarawak,

Jangan cemarkan,

Warisan yang tiada tandingannya..

I was singing it while I was doing my morning business, while I was brushing my teeth and I’m still singing it now…The song is written by Mr Kamil Salim and his wife, and our little group from our school was asked to sing it. Madam Allizah made us practice all the cute moves. We sang it 2 times, once in Pengkalan Sapi (yang dulunya cantik) and once in the Kuching Waterfront amphitheatre, for opening and closing ceremonies of “Cintailah Sungai Kita” campaign. I remembered me and my friends’ faces (5 or 6 of us) were in the front page of Utusan Sarawak….but of coursela, my family didn’t keep the newspaper cutting, we’re not sentimental enough to do that…hope my other friends did.

Those were the times when we thought they’re going to clean Sungai Sarawak, provide proper sewage system and good life for people living beside the river….but of course la, few years after, he-who-thinks-he-own-Sarawak turned it into a bottled water business….and people who live beside the river are facing possibilities that they might be relocated to a land far, far away to give way for impressive buildings to emerge, not to mention the flash floods that seem to occur more frequently and severe every time the rainy season comes….the floods that beat even the Great Kuching Flood 60++ years ago….huh!

Oooopsss, I’ve said too much.

*godverdomme!!

the mouth ulcers are back, so do the three pimples that hurt....

really not in the mood to be friendly....

which can only mean I'm stressed out...

can't wait to get this mess over and done with....



* - kalau rajin, carikla what it means

love does not happen to everyone, but friendship does

kawan-kawan
kita sama-sama budak hingusan

saat aku mula kenal kalian

kawan-kawan

kita sama-sama tidur makan

kongsi mandi dan jamban

kawan-kawan

dulu kita sama-sama kena marah kan

dan di kelas kita mengutuk ketakpuasan

kawan-kawan

kita ini ibarat kugiran

bersama kita memusikkan

lagu kebahagiaan

kawan-kawan

saat malam perpisahan

kita janji untuk tidak akan

melupakan persahabatan

kawan-kawan

sejauh mana kita berjalan

setinggi mana langit digenggam

kita tetap kawan

kawan-kawan

aku sayang kalian

**pics credits to Fatma & Wieza

P/S: 10 markah for those yang berjaya teka which TV series I quoted the title from

Xun - apa tu?

My friend TC just got back from a holiday trip in China. He told me he bought me an ashtray (what the ****).....

This is how the ashtray looks like....he got a good laugh for about 5 minutes when I was figuring out how the hell am I supposed to put this ashtray into good use and wondering why this ashtray comes with an instruction sheet which is written in Chinese writings...

Actually this egg shaped black pottery is called Xun, an ancient Chinese musical instrument which is almost 5000 years old. TC thinks that I should better spend my time learning how to play this instrument rather than spend money to buy an accordion (if you've read my previous entries, you would learn about the acordion story). So practical of TC to get me this, just because I'm the one who blow into things....I'm a trombone player la...I don't blow into things...

These are the info I found about Xun from Wikipedia:

The xun (simplified: 埙; traditional: 塤; pinyin: xūn) is a Chinese vessel flute made of clay or ceramic, similar to an ocarina but without a fipple. It is one of the oldest Chinese instruments. The xun is made in several sizes and is in the shape of an egg. It has a blowing hole on top and generally eight smaller finger holes (three each for the index, middle, and ring fingers of each hand, and one for each thumb).

The Korean equivalent is the hun (hangul: 훈; hanja: 塤). In Japan, the same type of instrument is called tsuchibue (hiragana: つちぶえ ; kanji: 土笛, lit. "earthen flute").

A similar looking Chinese instrument, called the Wudu, has a fipple and is the Chinese equivalent of the ocarina.

It sounds like a flute. I managed to play the lower notes, but still need to find the way to reach higher notes...need to find my flutist friend for some pointers....and since it's made of black pottery, after I'm done with my 'practice', my fingers, lips and mouth turn black as well.

ewwww

P/S: was trying to blog about my high school reunion weekend, but no words can describe the excitement that I felt....huhu

:(

I'm not a genius
don't expect me to know everything

I'm not that hardworking
so stop picking on my brain

I only have 2 hands and 1 point of focus
can't do and think of everything all at once

I'm not a freaking database
do your own research

I need to look good on Saturday
so please let me be stress-free

sendiri mau ingat??

Isnin November 2, 2009


Bau badan dan pakaian malam yang membosankan punca keretakan rumahtangga di Terengganu
Oleh R.S.N. MURALI



KUALA TERENGGANU: Memang sukar untuk dipercayai tetapi kini percayalah - bau badan (body odour), adegan seks dan baju tidur yang membosankan (boring pyjamas) telah dikenalpasti sebagai punca kenaikan kadar perceraian di negeri ini.

Untuk itu, Kerajaan Negeri Terengganu sedang merangka satu cara inovasi untuk memperbaiki hubungan kelamin di antara suami-isteri khususnya di kalangan mereka yang baru berkahwin.

Paling utama dalam senarai inisiatif baru ini ialah untuk menjemput syarikat-syarikat kosmetik untuk memperkenalkan bau-bauan yang eksotik yang mampu menimbulkan rasa ghairah.

Malah kerajaan negeri juga ingin mencadangkan supaya pasangan suami-isteri lebih kerap bermandi bersama sebagai salah satu jalan untuk mengukuhkan jalinan mesra mereka.

Timbalan Pengerusi Jawatankuasa Agama dan Penerangan Negeri Terengganu, Muhammad Ramli Nuh percaya, langkah ini akan mampu mengurangkan kadar perceraian di kalangan masyarakat Islam di negeri ini khususnya di kalangan pasangan muda.

Bercakap kepada akhbar The Star semalam, beliau mendedahkan bahawa apa yang membimbangkan sekarang ialah setiap tiga dari 10 perkahwinan di negeri ini berakhir dengan perceraian.

Beliau menambah, perpisahan kini menjadi satu trend yang sangat ketara di kalangan pasangan yang berusia di antara 25 hingga 30 tahun.

Muhammad Ramli berkata, apa yang mengejutkannya ialah apabila beliau mendapati, pasangan yang telah berkahwin di bawah lima tahun dan kini berada diambang perceraian menyatakan bahawa perlakuan seks yang rutin dan bau badan yang keterlaluan adalah punca utama mengapa mereka hendak bercerai.

Malah beliau juga terkejut apabila dimaklumkan oleh para kaunselor nikah kahwin, yang terdapat juga suami-isteri yang mengadu mereka jemu melihat cara pasangan mereka mengenakan baju tidur yang tidak memberansangkan malah pada kebanyakan masa hanya mengenakan kain sarung dan kemeja t sehingga menjemukan sehingga membawa kepada hilangnya keghairahan untuk mengadakan hubungan kelamin.

“Saya tahu satu kes itu pasangan berkenaan bercerai hanya kerana salah seorang daripadanya mempunyai bau badan seperti keropok ikan,” katanya.

Oleh yang demikian, katanya, kerajaan negeri melalui Lembaga Pembangunan Keluarga Negeri akan meminta bantuan syarikat-syarikat kosmetik untuk memperkenalkan pewangi khas untuk pasangan-pasangan yang bermasalah ini dengan harapan ini akan membantu mengekalkan perkahwinan mereka.

“Saya juga ingin menggalakkan pasangan yang baru bernikah ini supaya mengamalkan mandi bersama kerana saya pernah bertemu dengan satu pasangan dari Kelantan yang masih lagi mandi bersama walaupun mereka telah menjadi datuk dan nenek dan perkahwinan mereka kekal bahagia sehingga ke hari ini,” ujarnya.

Mungkin, katanya, semua pengalaman ini patut dijadikan satu daripada kurikulum yang perlu diperkenalkan kepada pasangan yang akan menghadiri kursus perkahwinan di Negeri Terengganu.

Muhammad Ramli turut menambah bahawa pihaknya juga sedang mencari konsultan yang dapat memberi tunjuk ajar kepada pasangan yang telah berkahwin mahupun yang akan berkahwin bagaimana hendak menghias diri agar kelihatan menarik dan segar mata memandang.


P/S: tak kira suami isteri kena pandai-pandaila jaga diri ok....tak berani komen banyak-banyak, takde experience

excited itu teruja

First weekend in Miri setelah sekian lama went really well...

- went out with friends on Friday nite and discovered that Pizza Hut ada pizza yg sangat sedap
- pegi breakfast kat SM setelah few months teringin nak makan kat sana but always bangun lambat atau takde teman (kali ni tekad drive sorang-sorang menempuh hujan ribut...thanks Encik F sebab sanggup berhujan untuk datang)
- catch up with my ex-housemate dan baby yang sangat adorable
- roaming aimlessly with Miss E - a thing that we haven't done for quite a while
- finish one whole book (which is not compilation of short stories/facts/anecdotes) - gonna write the book review later
- watched a DVD that I bought a few months ago
- get a much needed facial supaya muka saya berseri-seri sikit time reunion nanti
- hunting for the reunion dress for the whole day (we don't have the luxury of having a lot of choices in Miri) - thanks to Nono and Nuna for the support and critiques...I must have tried almost 20 different dresses and parade it in front of them...dah lama tak keluar window shopping sampai sakit kaki, kan?

so.......since I've bought the dress, these are the few things that still need to be crossed out:

1. knee-length boots sebab betis bunting nagaku ini sangat tak sesuai pakai legging sahaja

2. kalau tak nak pakai boots tu, then maybe pantyhose and wear it with a 4" gladiator sandals yang aritu nampak kat Bintang (RM lagi)

3. clip-on earrings yang tak nampak macam clip-on earrings....takutla nak tindik telinga

4. bangles yang bling-bling

5. rantai / choker - just in case kalau ternampak yg lagi menarik than the ones I already have

6. bling-bling scarf - the one that I have now agak licin ....takut tertanggal pulak

7. sesuatu to make my tummy flatter - hik hik

8. a black turtle neck shirt

9. kastenet  ;P

kalau ada sesiapa nak taja atau nak kasi pinjam, you are most welcome...

invitation card arrived today! very the girlish with pink ribbons and diamonds on a silver bling-bling card....hehehehe....excited nak jumpa budak-budak perempuan hingusan yang sekolah kat Jalan Kolam Ayer tu dulu....